Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-02-04
DEM0CRACY'S BEST DAYS.
MIR. HTORGAN CALLS THE PAR
TE BETTER THAN EVER.

The Organization Rapidly Becoming q
C0nglomeratlOn of the Best Elements
in the COuntry-President Cleveland
Urged to Use the AK More FreeIy-Ar,
Plumb Inclined to be Humorous.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.-In the Senate
to-day the resolution heretofore offered by
Mr.. Plumb calling on the Secretary of thu
Interior for information as to whether
there ls any rule of the Pension OlIica
whereby any applicant for a pension IL
denied hearing by reason OF being also
petitioner to Congress, was taken up
and discussed. The discussion turned
somewhat on the question of civil servlca
reform. On that point Mr.. Salisbury said
that while he would not convert PreGi.
dent Cleveland into public butcher, de.
capitating every office-holder hostile to
him, he would instruct him that it was a
duty which hs owed to himself, his al.
ministratiOn, the party which elected
him and the country which he served %
purge the departments Of men hostile 4
his administration, and unless he did 80
he would not have successful admirias
tratlou.
THE PARTY BETTER THAN EVER.
Mr.. Morgan expressed the belief thak
there was more intelligence represented
ID the Democratic party today than evet
had existed before in any political party.
Many Republicans who had Witnessed
the rapacity aud infidelity TO the cOnsG-
tuition of their own party had been cOIa-
PEELED, through self-respect, to join tha
party which had some respect for the cOn%
sJtutiOn and law, and that WAS the reR--
son why he was able to say that thera
was more intelligence represented in tha
Democratic party to-day than had ever
been found before in any party IN tha
United States. The Democratic party
was oonglomerate party, made uu
largely OF men who had enough indepanu,
enoe OF thought to leave behind them.
their party leaders and machine wOrker3
and come out in honest advocacy of opia@
ions and OF a policy which they believed
essential to the whole country.
WANTS THE OFFICES.
He agreed with the Senator from Dala,
ware that the President mistOOk his op.
pOrtunities for success, and put 1t very
much in peril when he deliberately left
the conduct of public affairs In the hands
OF his enemies. He hoped the Presidents
and heads Of the departments would take
warning and not let themselves and their
administration be brought into disgrace
bythe treachery OF subOrdlnates,
Mr.. Plumb SAID the remarks of the Sem
ator from Alabama seemed TO indicate on
his part an absence OF accurate BuowI+
edge Of what rs going on in the Unitet
States. He had eulOQiZed the Democratic d
party. but that party was fast disappear-
i'm. There were sections OF the country
where 10 once existed. not only in vlgor
butin great numbers, where there was
only trace Of it left.
IN THE SOUTH.
In South Carolina, State having, &C.
cording to the last census az MANY ppO-
pie as Kansas, and having as many Rep
resentatives In the other branch of Com
gress, only 33 600 votes were cast at tha
last Congressional election, while nearly
300, 900 were cast in Kansas. One district
in Kansas cast nearly twice as many as
the entire State Of E@uth Carolina. Only
about 10000 vOtes we're cast in Georgia,
the Empire State OF the South over whosa
achievements the average Bourbon DemD-
crat fingered with prde-the keystone OF
the Confederate arch. He would not say
whether the census was to be believed
whether Georgia bad as many or mors
people than Kansas In l8S0-but Georgia
cast less than one.thtrd the number OF
votes cast in Kapsas at the last general
election.
Mr.. Morgan said that in Alabama ths
Republicans had no ticket at all.
TENSIONS RETENTION.
Mr., Beck explained that as to the StatA
Of Kentucky the smallness OF the vote in
Lexington district Tor instance) was duo
to the fact that there was no Republican
candidate running against Mr.. Breckin-
ridge. He agreed with the Senators from
Delaware and Alabama that it was not a
wise policy on the part Of the administered
tiOn TO keep its enemies in Office, and he
referred TO Mr.. Jemison, chic of the rail-
road mail service, as Republican who
had under him 4,400 employees with
salaries from 81 800 10 $500.
Mr.. Plumb expressed a willingness tn
see every Republican Office 0older turned
out. He aaked how IL was that in Ken
ucky. il the people were really there, they
did not come out 10 express thel- 0piniona
at the polls.
DECLARED NOT REPRESENTATIVE.
What groundwork was there for the
eulOgy which the Senator from Alabama
had passed on the Democratic party when
only two or three per cent. Of its members
went to the polls? In those places whera
the Democratic party thrives most there
was no such thing as public opinion. No
man IN Congress with only 1900 or 1000
votes at his back could assume TO repre-
sent any phase Of that public opinion
which ought TO be finally reflected In the
laws enacted by Congress. He did not
care 10 20 back of the figures. Either the
Democratic party had disappeared or -
worse thing mad come about, and the peo-
pie OF those sections mad no interest in
public matters, didn't care who
represented them in Congress,
didn't submit 10 the arbitramenu
OF Intelligent discussion, and were, per
consequence, not fitted TO exercise the
functions OF government.
MIR. Plumb's resolution was discussed
until , O'Clock when 1t was laid aside
without action.